Jun 9, 2014

New Feathered Fowl, "Automatic" Song, Chicks And A Dust Bath

New Feathered Fowl-
When I was shopping I found these cute little guys! Out in the pond they went :)

"Automatic" Song- By Miranda Lambert

I really like this song, and I'm old enough to get most of the references :)

Quarter in a payphone, Drying laundry on the line

Watching Sun Tea in the window,Pocket watch tellin' time

Seems like only yesterday I'd get a blank cassette

Record the country countdown 'cause I couldn't buy it yet

If we drove all the way to Dallas just to buy an Easter dress

We’d take along a Rand McNally, stand in line to pay for gas

God knows that shifting gears ain’t what it used to be

I learned to drive that 55 just like a queen, three on a tree

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn

Doing it all by hand, 'Cause when everything is handed to you

It's only worth as much as the time put in,

It all just seemed so good the way we had it

Back before everything became automatic

If you had something to say, You'd write it on a piece of paper

Then you'd put a stamp on it, And they'd get it three days later

Boys would call the girls, And girls would turn them down

Staying married was the only way to work your problems out

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn

Doing it all by hand, 'Cause when everything is handed to you

It's only worth as much as the time put in

It all just seemed so good the way we had it

Back before everything became automatic, automatic

Let's pull the windows down,Windows with the cranks

Come on let's take a picture, The kind you gotta shake

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn

Doing it all by hand, 'Cause when everything is handed to you

It's only worth as much as the time put in

It all just seemed so good the way we had it

Back before everything became, automatic

Chicks-

There's nothing cuter than a chick trying to take a dust bath in turf! I had the brilliant idea to take my
leftover rain barrel lid and fill it with nice, dry garden soil. I put it in and watched- they all stood there
chirping! "What's that?" "I don't know, but I'm not going near it." Finally the girls, Fiona and the Rosie,
went up and started pecking. Hopefully a proper dust bath will soon happen!